USA Today - Apr 6 2016

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Clues Answers
"Piano," literally SOFT
"Roots," for one EPIC
( or ) PAREN
Animators' characters TOONS
Be useful to AVAIL
Big Apple restaurateur Toots SHOR
Black-bordered article OBIT
Cede the pigskin, in a way PUNT
Cheesy snacks NACHOS
City on the Seine ROUEN
Construction beam IBAR
Courage, informally GUTS
Crude-producing grp OPEC
Cyber-junk SPAM
Dead Sea feature SALT
Featherbrain SIMP
Flat on one's face PRONE
Frozen waffle brand EGGO
Gallery event ARTSALE
Geometry finding AREA
Guesstimate word ABOUT
Has coffee, say TAKESTEN
Held a follow-up session REMET
Hoppy brew ALE
Hunter who wrote "Blackboard Jungle" EVAN
In style HIP
In the thick of AMID
Iowa biofuel ETHANOL
Japanese honorific SAN
Keep from escaping HEMIN
Kingdom near Fiji TONGA
Locket shape OVAL
Long. crosser LAT
LP protectors LINERS
Manicotti ingredient RICOTTA
Move, in realtor-speak RELO
Not just sit ACT
Novel's thread PLOT
Old Testament paradise EDEN
Clues Answers
One in the clink CON
Parental admonition DONT
Playwright's prize OBIE
Prepared a pumpkin HOLLOWED
Queenly role for Liz CLEO
Race terminus TAPE
Reddish-brown horse ROAN
Religious recluse EREMITE
Ruffles potato chip feature RIDGE
Rural alarm clock ROOSTER
Said "aye" VOTED
Sawbucks TENS
Say "Ole!" CHEER
Say it isn't so DENY
Sch. with a Providence campus URI
Some Ivy Leaguers ELIS
Sphinx, in part LION
Stand-up comic Margaret CHO
Striped yellow billiard ball NINE
Subway scurriers RATS
Super bargain STEAL
Team with a goat mascot NAVY
Terms of a lease TENANCY
The daring board gamer . . RANTHERISK
The naive board gamer . . HADNTACLUE
The peripatetic board gamer . . WASONTHEGO
The resurgent board gamer . . CAMETOLIFE
Thomas who lampooned Tweed NAST
Tootling instrument FIFE
Torch's misdeed ARSON
Tree home NEST
Twangy, as voices go NASAL
Unit of force DYNE
Walled city of Spain AVILA
Wearing brogans, say SHOD
Well-constructed SOLID
Wise king SOLOMON
___ avis RARA
___ off (annoyed) TEED